Quotes About Interdependence

Though no law was written, there was a crude rule of law, adherence to a covenant that transcended their selfish interests. It was biblical in its depth, and its importance grew with each step into wilderness. When the need arose, a man extended a helping hand to his friends, to his partners, to strangers. In so doing, each knew that his own survival might one day depend upon the reaching grasp of another. The

We recognize in society that individual autonomy extends only up to the point that you begin to affect others.

The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and every star that shimmers in the sky. Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature may seek to categorize and pigeonhole and subdivide the various phenomena of the universe, all apportionments are of necessity artificial and all of nature is ultimately a seamless web.

Altruism is not an improbable achievement against the individualizing forces of natural selection; rather, it is an integral part of the social lives of all beings that live with others interdependently—up to a (mathematical) point. Everyone helps and gets helped, up to a point, because everyone is important to someone in some way, up to a point.

Modern humans' group-minded interdependence thus served to spread human sympathy and helping to all in the group, best characterized as a sense of loyalty to the group. As a consequence, there emerged in modern humans a distinctive in-group/out-group psychology.

Ortak seçimi demek, bir bireyi, muhtemelen en yetkin (örne?in bilgili ve hünerli) ve i?birli?ine en yatk?n (örne?in üzerine dü?en i?i yapmaya ve pay?na dü?en kadar?n? almaya e?ilimli) olan? i?birli?i orta?? olarak tercih etmek demektir. Zorunlu i?birli?ine dayal? avc?l?k-toplay?c?l?k ba?lam?nda hiç kimse taraf?ndan seçilmemek elbette ki?inin ölümüne yol açacakt?r.

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

Un couple est un monde, un monde autonome et clos qui se déplace au milieu d'un monde plus vaste, sans en être réellement atteint ; solitaire

Perché per rispettare gli altri e trattarli in modo giusto, non dobbiamo dimenticarci che abbiamo tutti bisogno di qualcuno. Che siamo tutti dipendenti. Senza eccezione. E che la dipendenza non è necessariamente negativa.

I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

Without Renn - without his fierce, brave, secretive, complicated Renn - he would never be more than half-alive. In the shelter Marupai's snores stuttered to a halt, then resumed. Marupai was what Torak would become if he lost Renn.

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12, NIV

If more folk would help each other out, we wouldn't need to get the law involved on everything,

Ella sería el báculo de todos los que la rodearan; pero si sus piernas flaquearan, si su cabeza no le mantuviese firme en su sendero, si su corazón empezaba a bambolear y enflaquecer, ¿quién la sostendría a ella?, ¿quién sería su báculo? [...]»

Perhaps the most urgent task facing us is to create a new educational curriculum that will make each child aware, from the first grade on, that life in the universe is interdependent. It should be an education that trains the mind to perceive the network of causes and effects in which our actions are embedded, and trains the emotions and the imagination to respond appropriately to the consequences of those actions.

family must be both differentiated and integrated. Differentiation means that each person is encouraged to develop his or her unique traits, maximize personal skills, set individual goals. Integration, in contrast, guarantees that what happens to one person will affect all others.

creativity must, in the last analysis, be seen not as something happening within a person but in the relationships within a system.

Nesting like Russian dolls. Each larger creation becomes more than the sum of its parts yet remains entirely dependent on them.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.

I am not capable of true friendship. One of the two friends is always the slave of the other, although, often, neither of the two admits this to himself.

Life is filled with many complicated tasks, and no one, Casey, no one can do things alone. It's very slow going if you choose that path.

She was thanking everybody because she believed, as do many Japanese, that it takes a village to raise a child. I was the product of a group effort rather than any given individual. And the group was Gion Kobu.